fineness

IPA: fˈaɪnnʌs

The quality or degree of being fine.
The ratio, in a precious metal, of the primary metal to any additives or impurities.
The ratio of length to width of a ship, aircraft or rocket

Examples of "fineness" in Sentences

The only thing that ever made his heart laugh was the idea of fineness finding place in himself.
When buying soft luggage, check the denier of a fabric, a measurement that refers to the fineness of the yarn.
The size of the grounds, called the fineness of the grind, is determined how long the cutting blades are allowed to chop up the beans.
But in the process of recalibrating to go after Honda Civic and Toyota Corolla, the Jetta loses a certain German fineness and desirability.
The very slender base, despite of an apparent fragility and fineness, is solid and resistant thanks to a special tempering treatment of the glass.
It can be said that the unconscious states in question lack the kind of fineness of grain and richness of content necessary to count as genuinely perceptual states.
Soul and body were not thought to be radically different in kind; their difference seemed just to consist in a difference in degree of properties such as fineness and mobility.